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Amazon Web Services ouvre un centre de données à Montréal

 

Le fournisseur de services infonuagiques Amazon Web Services (AWS) devrait augmenter considérablement sa présence canadienne au cours des prochaines années, avec la mise en place aujourd’hui de sa première « région » canadienne, AWS Canada (Centre), dont l’un des centres de données est situé ici même à Montréal. Entretien avec Teresa Carlson, vice-présidente d’Amazon Web Services et responsable mondiale du secteur public.

 

Maxime Johnson : Que représente le lancement d’une nouvelle région exactement?

Teresa Carlson : La région AWS Canada contient deux zones de disponibilité, et chacune de ces zones regroupe trois centres de données. L’un d’eux est situé à Montréal. Nous respectons plusieurs critères lorsque nous choisissons où seront situés les centres, afin qu’ils soient par exemple approvisionnés par différents réseaux électriques et que les risques soient répartis pour les tremblements de terre et les inondations.

 

MJ : Comment est-ce que l’arrivée de la région devrait affecter la croissance d’AWS au Canada

TC : Nous ne dévoilons pas nos prédictions exactes, mais je peux dire que nous connaissons généralement une forte croissance dans les pays où nous instaurons une région. Nous prévoyons que trois types de clients profiteront du service. Les multinationales présentes au Canada devraient y transférer leurs données rapidement, suivies des jeunes entreprises technologiques. Notre présence dans le secteur public devrait aussi finalement décoller, car nous avons finalement quelque chose à leur offrir.

 

MJ : Quelle est l’importance d’avoir accès à une région locale pour vos clients?

TC : La chose la plus importante est de loin la souveraineté des données. C’est particulièrement vrai pour nos clients dans le secteur public, qui sont souvent tenus d’entreposer certaines données sur leur propre territoire. L’autre avantage est par rapport à la vitesse. C’est une question de physique : plus le centre de données est proche, plus le service est rapide.

 

MJ : Vous ne dévoilez jamais la taille ou l’emplacement exact de vos centres de données. Pourquoi?

TC : C’est une raison de sécurité. Si nos centres sont répertoriés sur une carte géographique, ce n’est pas bon pour personne. Nous donnons l’emplacement général, en disant par exemple qu’il y a un centre à Montréal, mais c’est tout. Certaines compagnies sont plus ouvertes, mais je crois que l’intérêt est surtout d’un point de vue marketing. Nous n’avons pas besoin de ça, ça ne fait qu’augmenter les coûts. Et AWS, comme Amazon dans son ensemble, essaie de fonctionner avec les coûts et les marges les plus bas possible.

 

Amazon Web Services ouvre un centre de donnees a Montreal | Metro

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Pour ceux qui se demandent, où est le centre de données précisément, Amazon a publié plusieurs offres d'emploi à Baie d'Urfé ;)

 

May 24, 2016 11:10 ET

 

ROOT Data Center Lands Top Tech Company

Fast, flexible capacity and environmental consciousness secure International investment in ROOT Data Center

MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC--(Marketwired - May 24, 2016) - ROOT Data Center has taken another step towards making Montréal the leading data centre city in Canada with the addition of a second centre in Baie-D'Urfe, PQ, and expansion of its existing LaSalle, PQ, facility. Investment in greater capacity, increase energy efficiency and a significant increase in staff have been possible through the on-boarding of clients who recognize the value in ROOT's location and unique service offering.

 

Additional 175,000 square foot site

ROOT Data Center has become the data centre of choice because of its ability deploy needed capacity quickly through one of the most energy-efficient facilities in the country. This allows clients to bring their offerings to market sooner and significantly reduce traditional operational costs.

Anonymous by request, a sizeable new client entering Canada required more capacity to house their IT infrastructure and geographic redundancy was required, inspiring the need for a second site. Currently, ROOT is completing phase one of its new facility in Baie-D'Urfe. The 175,000 square-foot centre that will eventually have a total power capacity of 50MW (megawatt), will go online in June with a 20MW capacity, enough to power up to 20,000 homes.

In sync with the physical site expansion, ROOT has hired more staff to meet its rapid growth, ramping up their team from nine in December 2015 to 34 employees as of April 2016.

ROOT, the eco-superior data centre

Efficiencies are realized though a unique cooling technology that uses the ambient air temperatures to cool the data centre. It is 100 percent free cooling when the temperature outside is below 22C and partial free cooling between 22C and 30C. In Montréal partial support is needed less than 10 percent of the year meaning ROOT's facilities reduce non-critical energy consumption by more than 50 percent compared to traditional centres. It also eliminates the need for more risky and complicated water cooling systems that can use millions of gallons of wasted water annually.

"We are very excited to assist our new customer as they enter the Canadian market," said Root Data Center chief executive officer, AJ Byers. "They have proven that our desire to challenge the data centre industry in Canada, by being more efficiency-focused, can bring significant value to large international organizations coming into the country."

$25 million in funding

ROOT raised $25 million in growth financing to complete the development of the LaSalle data centre, build the second data facility and fund their operational and staffing growth. The funding was secured from ABRY Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm with extensive investment experience in the data centre sector.

About ROOT Data Center

ROOT is a next generation data centre company that provides colocation solutions to empower the world's computing leaders. Its modular design promises optimal agility and efficiency, which enables all customers to scale their technology infrastructure and grow with confidence. Less power to waste, more power to you. For more information visit ROOT Data Center

 

ROOT Data Center Lands Top Tech Company

 

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Baie d’Urfe: un centre de donnees de 175 000 pieds carres | Metro

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Ceux qui se demandent si ça crée de la job, oui ça crée de la job et beaucoup.

 

Ce ne sont pas des jobs directs chez Amazon, mais tout ce que le AWS va permettre de faire.

 

La comparaison est boiteuse, mais c'est comme construire un nouvel aéroport ou pont, entretenir l'infrastructure elle même ne créé pas énormément de jobs, mais les possibilités d'affaires sont accrus énormément, ce qui créée des emplois indirectement.

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Cadeau pour toi, mark_ac

 

Amazon chooses Montreal for its Canadian data centre operations due to cheaper hydro costs

 

Internet giant Amazon Web Services has opened a cluster of data centres near Montreal due to the ready availability and cost of hydro-electric power in Quebec.

 

The company, which is notoriously secretive about its data centres, said there are now at least two data centres just outside Montreal to offer web-based services to the “Canada Region.” Canada joins 15 other regions around the globe from which Amazon is running data services on behalf of clients.

 

Teresa Carlson, vice-president of public sector with Amazon Web Services, said the cost and availability of hydro-electric power is ultimately what made Amazon choose Quebec as its Canadian home.

 

“We picked the area that we did because of the hydro power,” said Carlson. “We did find them (Quebec) to be very business friendly.

 

Carlson said Amazon conducted a thorough review of various options within Canada, including Ontario, that involved looking at a number of factors, including the price of electricity. She also said Amazon is keen to source green energy where it can as the company is attempting to get all of its data centres on renewable energy sources.

 

The announcement is a boon to Quebec, which now finds itself at the forefront of cloud computing nationally. It’s an industry the province has been pursuing heavily, using its cheap hydro electricity as a prime attractant.

 

A page on the province’s Invest Quebec website spells out the benefits of setting up data centres in the province. It already secured one of the world’s largest data centres from French cloud computing giant OVH in 2013. That investment led to OVH setting up its North American research and development labs in the province in 2016. IBM, Bell Canada, Cogeco Data Services and many others have also recently opened data centres in the province.

 

While Amazon wouldn’t reveal how large the investment was that it made in its new Montreal facilities, U.K. newspaper The Independent reported in October 2015 that a comparable development in Dublin, Ireland, was valued at $280 million.

According to a recently released study by Persistence Market Research, companies will have spent more than $40.4 billion U.S. on the construction of new data centres around the globe this year. By 2024, that amount is expected to hit $96.5 billion as more services move to the cloud and more businesses demand it.

 

In Canada, Quebec is preparing itself to take advantage of that opportunity and the highly skilled, high-paying technical jobs it will bring.

 

“Significant projects like the one ‎being realized by Amazon Web Services represent the kind of large-scale investment that take Quebec a long way toward its goals in the digital world,” said Dominique Anglade,‎ minister of Economy, Science and Innovation in Quebec. “Indeed, this initiative will stimulate the development of cloud computing in Quebec, a key area that can be an engine for our province’s information technology and communication sector.”

 

Carlson promised outreach from Amazon in the months and years ahead to work with companies, colleges and universities through partnerships and various other initiatives in a bid to help foster more skill in the cloud computing sector.

 

The revelation that Quebec was chosen over other provinces to play host to Amazon’s data cluster comes at a time when Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario Liberal government is reeling from an energy policy that has sent electricity prices skyrocketing in recent years.

 

According to current statistics provided by Hydro Quebec, large commercial electricity users pay 5.17 cents per kWh in the province, while comparable businesses in Ontario pay around 13 cents per kWh, the highest rate in Canada. Hydro Quebec pricing is largely cited as the de facto industry standard.

 

Patrick Brown, leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative party, was quick to jump on the news as more evidence that the province’s electricity prices are making it less competitive for big business investments and could hamper its opportunities when it comes to high-tech.

 

“I’m envious of Quebec. It’s a competitive destination for jobs. It’s a story we’ve heard all to often, and we need to rectify it,” said Brown. “These are jobs that could have gone to Ontario. We can do better in this province.”

 

Brown said the price of electricity for high-usage commercial customers has climbed far too high over the past decade due to Liberal energy policies.

 

Douglas Porter, chief economist and managing director of BMO Financial Group, had similar concerns when it came to his take on the current state of electricity pricing in Ontario.

 

“There is little doubt that Ontario’s relative position has deteriorated markedly in recent years as a result of relatively large increases over the last couple years,” he said. “The most eye-popping number has been in the last 12 months alone, where we’ve seen a 15.2-per-cent increase in Ontario’s electricity prices.”

 

In November, Wynne publicly admitted that skyrocketing energy prices in the province were her “mistake” and vowed to do something about them in 2017. Wynne’s office refused to comment on the issue, deferring all inquiries to Ontario Minister of Energy Glenn Thibeault.

 

A spokesman for the minister, Dan Moulton, responded on behalf of Thibeault and blamed years of Conservative mismanagement prior to the arrival of the Liberal government in 2003 for today’s rising electricity prices.

 

“We know the costs associated with modernizing the badly neglected electricity system we inherited from the previous Conservative government remain a concern for some companies,” said Moulton. “We’re taking concrete action to reduce costs for businesses, like expanding the Industrial Conservation Incentive program to allow up to 1,000 new businesses to reduce their electricity bills by up to one-third. And we are taking action to reduce overall costs in the electricity system, including suspending new large, renewable procurements

.“

 

He argued that commercial electricity rates aren’t as high as some have reported. Moulton pointed to a study released by the Ministry of Energy that states large commercial suppliers in Ontario cities such as Toronto and Ottawa were paying 8.35 per kWh for electricity as of May 2015, the most recent month for which the province has statistics.

 

Moulton also said that Ontario has a very good relationship with Amazon. The company just agreed to expand a warehousing facility that it has in Brampton, which could create as many as 700 jobs, he said. He also said the company has recently acquired office space that could fit as many as 800 employees in Toronto. Moulton pointed at other investments by major auto manufacturers.

 

However, an investment in a warehouse facility is a drop in the bucket compared to an investment in a data centre.

Amazon Web Services is the largest provider of cloud computing services in the world, accounting for more than 30 per cent of the global market. Cloud computing sees companies outsource information technology departments to another company, like Amazon, to host websites, run servers and handle Internet traffic for applications and video on a subscription basis.

 

In its most recent financial quarter, Amazon Web Services accounted for $3.23 billion U.S. in sales, a 55-per-cent increase over the $2.1 billion it accounted for during the same quarter last year.

 

Amazon chooses Montreal for its Canadian data centre operations due to cheaper hydro costs

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Ce sera à Varennes

http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2018/05/28/amazon-debarque-a-varennes-1

Centre de données

Amazon débarque à Varennes

Francis Halin | Journal de Montréal

| Publié le 28 mai 2018 à 13:54 - Mis à jour à 13:59

 

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Amazon va ouvrir un centre de données ultrasécurisé de 155 000 pieds carrés à Varennes près de l’Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec (IREQ) l’automne prochain, un mégaprojet qui pourrait facilement tripler sa superficie.

«C’est la phase un d’un centre de données», a confirmé le maire de Varennes Martin Damphousse, se refusant toutefois de nommer le nom de l’entreprise pour des raisons de confidentialité. Ces derniers jours, l’information a enflammé les réseaux sociaux locaux.

Selon M. Damphousse, il est trop tôt encore pour évaluer les retombées fiscales pour sa ville puisque celles-ci dépendront du coût de construction. Amazon s’établira sur un terrain voisin de l’Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec (IREQ).

Séduit par l’IREC

«On est en discussion avec les principaux joueurs de l’industrie, mais on a des ententes de confidentialité et on ne peut pas dévoiler quelconque information à ce stade-ci», s’est limité à dire le porte-parole d’Hydro-Québec Louis-Olivier Batty.

D’autres sources bien au fait du dossier chez Hydro-Québec ont pu confirmer au Journal que c’est bel et bien Amazon qui a jeté son dévolu sur l’immense terrain près de l’IREC.

De son côté, le député de Verchères Stéphane Bergeron s’est réjoui de l’arrivée d’Amazon dans sa région, tout en maintenant qu’il s’agissait encore d’une «rumeur». Il a qualifié cette nouvelle de « secret de polichinelle» qui circulé amplement sur les réseaux sociaux.

«C’est en soi une bonne nouvelle pour Varennes et pour le Québec», a-t-il partagé au Journal. M. Bergeron a affirmé que la première phase du projet allait créer une bonne dizaine d’emplois.

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Vous trouverez ci-joint deux rendus différents du futur site d'Amazon à Varennes. Cela nous donne un aperçu de quoi pourrait avoir l'air le site en question. Je dis bien pourrait car les deux illustrations se contredisent l'une l'autre.

La première vient d'un reportage de Radio-Canada tandis que la seconde a été prise sur site web de La Relève.

L'illustration de La Relève est générique et supposément représentative d'un centre de données d'Amazon. Pour ce qui est de l'illustration de Radio-Canada je ne sais pas d'où elle vient ni si elle représente en réalité le futur site de Varennes.

https://www.facebook.com/rdieconomie/videos/797306660454874/

http://www.lareleve.qc.ca/amazon-web-services-choisit-varennes/

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